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Friday, December 21, 2007

Condi!

Forgive our brief foray into national politics...

Condi on Huckabee's criticism of the Bush foreign policy.

"The idea that somehow this is a go-it-alone policy is just simply ludicrous," she said at a State Department news conference. "One would only have to be not observing the facts, let me say that, to say that this is now a go-it-alone foreign policy."

Serious question for the Coolerites. Does anybody have any idea what Mike Huckabee's foreign policy would look like? In the NYT mag interview when asked who would influence his foreign policy he cited Thomas Friedman and Frank Gaffney! WTF?

Friedman you might recall said the 9/11 era of politics is OVER. And Gaffney is a avowed neo-con. Does Huckabee even know what they stand for? Who knows?

If you do have a sense for what Mike Huckabee's foreign policy would look like, please enlighten us in the comments section.

Wow Condi taking Huckabee and his camp to the wood shed enough said! Not! My family and I will be voting for Mitt Romney the candidate who will get results! Quip Draw Huckabee is in trouble when the most infuential conservatives in America are shouting you are not what you claim to be. The people of Iowa are not going to buy Huckabees snake oil. Lets see Rush, Tom Tancredo, Condi, George Will, National Review etc. Hum Huck is a shadow campaign!

I work as a Police Officer and would never want Huckabee releasing all the crooks were putting away in jail in Maine. Mitt Romney was tough on crime in Massachusetts he passed some of the strongest Drunk Driving Laws in the nation and added hundreds of new Mass State Troopers. He upgraded the Crime Labs and and backed Law Enforcement. On the other hand the left side you have let "Set Them ALL Free Mike Huckabee". The choice is clear Tough on Crime Mitt Romney - or "Set Them All Free Mike Huckabee"Mitt Romney it will be!

Yes, Huck is as liberal as the Clintons... except on a few social issues. That's the way it is.

As for the 11th commandment... It is clear that Huck tried to draw first blood against the Romney campaign.

This is another way that Huck is just like Bill Clinton. They are constantly playing the "martyr" card to avoid scrutiny and shift the focus away from the real issues.

When Huck made the "Jesus and Satan are brothers comment", he was quickly ridiculed by many for being a bigot. His response was that he just didn't know that much about Mormons and was just asking "an innocent question" to someone who "seemed like a smart guy"...

Well, as it turns out this is yet another fabrication in a long, long, dirty laundry list of fabrications. Huckabee CERTAINLY knew what the Mormons believe, and he KNEW that that remark--One often used to incite prejudice against Mormons--was designed to conjure a negative misrepresentation of Mormon beliefs.

He knew enough about Mormon doctrine to lead a group of evangelicals on a crusade to convert Mormons from the error of their ways in 1997 in Salt Lake City.

Here is a source that illustrates Huckabee's prejudice and poisonous remarks... which came long before Mitt Romney's "negative" ads.

Mike Huckabee 10-9
Mitt Romney 3-1
Fred Thompson 9-1
John McCain 9-1
Rudy Giuliani 12-1
Ron Paul 12-1
Duncan Hunter 98-1
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